On February 25th, MdVLA and Station North will host artists, lawyers, and law students at: Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, a Presentation and Discussion to be held at the Station North Chicken Box, 1 W. North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. The event will focus on how artists, scholars, educators, and museum professionals can appropriately use the copyrighted works of others without permission in their practice through fair use. The presentation and discussion will be followed by a reception. The event is free. Please RSVP to [email protected] .

The presentation and discussion will be led by Peter Jaszi, a professor of law at American University Washing College of Law. Professor Jaszi teaches copyright law and courses in law and cinema, as well as supervising students in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, which he helped to establish, along with the Program on Intellectual Property and Information Justice. He has served as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and is a member of the editorial board of its journal. In 2007, he received the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. He has written about copyright history and theory and co-authored a standard copyright textbook. With Prof, Pat Aufderheide, he facilitated the College Art Association’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, which was released on February 13.